Sauce boat
Daniel Piers (fl.1746-1753)
Category
Silver
Date
1751 - 1752
Materials
Sterling silver
Measurements
17.5 x 20.3 x 10.8 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852082.2
Summary
Sauce boat, sterling silver, by Daniel Piers, London, 1751/2. One of two. The raised oval, helmet-shaped body rests on a shaped oval foot with cast and chased shells, C-scrolls and gadrooning. The same decoration augments the cast and chased rim which rises to a broad pouring lip and an inward curving scroll upon which rests the double-scroll and leaf-capped handle. Heraldry: On the front beneath the lip is engraved the quartered shield, supporters and motto of the 2nd Earl of Bristol in an ermine mantling and beneath an earl’s coronet.
Full description
For further detail see master object entry.
Provenance
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1721-75); by descent to the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951); accepted by the Treasury in lieu of death duties in 1956 and transferred to the National Trust.
Credit line
Ickworth, the Bristol Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Underside: Hallmarks: maker’s mark ‘DP’ beneath a pellet (Arthur Grimwade, London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, 1990, no. 493), lion passant, date letter ‘q’ and leopard’s head. Underside: Scratchweight: ‘23=3’ [/] N2’.
Makers and roles
Daniel Piers (fl.1746-1753), goldsmith